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By way of Glenn Reynolds, a member of that elite group of lawyers whose guts I do not hate, we learn that Sol may be entering an extended minimum, which means a mini-Ice Age could be coming.
I almost hope it’s for real, except for the fact that I hate cold weather.
If the Islamist terrorists ever successfully detonate a nuclear bomb in the US, I hope Berkeley is at the epicenter.
I can’t think of any other US city I’d rather sacrifice.
The “Short Bus” you mean.
I was reading an article in an internal insurance publication today regarding an accident involving a car and a motorcycle.
The differences in the claim forms were amazing; a lot of omissions on both sides. What astounded me however was the letter that was sent by the motorcyle rider to the insurance company.
As I can’t bring the document out of the office I can only summarise what it said for you, and here it is.
“People who drive cars need to take more notice of us motorcycle riders. We dont have a cage around us to protect us in an accident. We (motorcyclists) dont cause accidents but we always end up more injured than the drivers of the cars that hit us.”
I’m sorry, but it’s their decision to ride a motorcycle. I made a decision to drive a car because I feel it’s safer.
Anyway the long and the short of it is that after a long investigation it was discovered that the guy on the bike was doing nearly 145kph when the driver of the car put his indicator on to change lanes, checked his mirrors and moved over.
For crying out loud, you have a choice to ride a bike or drive a car (or both) but at the end of the day we all have to obey the road rules, not just car drivers. We share the roads. Be aware and do the right thing and stop blaming everyone else.
END RANT
The Study that claims one million Iraqis have died in Iraq since the 2003 liberation is clearly false.
Let me show you why.
365 days per year x 5 years = 1825 days.
1,ooo,ooo alleged deaths / 1825 days = 547.9452 people dead per day.
547.9452 people alleged dead per day x 31 days this year = 16986.3 people dead this year.
So where are all the bodies and all the reports of deaths?
Surely 16,986.3 people can’t die without being reported, by the media who are desperate for solid figures with which to paint the war in the worst possible light?
Back in ’83 when I was a roadie/assistant tour manager/driver/gofer/object of abuse for Johnny Thunders on a tour of Europe, we spent the summer -“midsommarkransen” – in Stockholm, Sweden. I needed a place to stay until I found a sublet, and the company that was promoting Johnny introduced me to a Norwegian keyboard player named Magnus (Or Magne) who had a flat… and a girlfriend he could stay with.
I liked the kid, he was energetic, enthusiastic, and outgoing, and he basically packed a bag, lit out for his girlfriend’s place, and gave me his flat. Kind of amazing. Anyway, he told me he was with a Norwegian group called A-Ha, and I didn’t think anything more of it… until 1985, when I saw this.
After all these years, I still think it’s in the top three best all time music videos along with Sledge Hammer by Peter Gabriel…
…and something I must be forgetting. Anyone else know of a music video that can compare with these two?
Anna Loginova, Russia’s most famous and glamorous female bodyguard, was murdered by a carjacker when her own personal Porsche Cayenne was stolen from her.
This is sad but predictable. Russia has a rampant crime problem, and this is a direct consequence of years under a godless, totalitarian, communist dictatorship. Call it a societal amoral hangover, if you like.
Now that capitalism has taken hold in the former Soviet Union, the have-nots – can-nots, more likely – feel no moral compunction about coveting the property of others to the point of theft and even murder. That’s why Anna’s outfit had such brisk business.
She makes some excellent points in the previous interviews quoted – especially the point about obviously beefy security guys being barred from eateries and such – but she should never have gone anywhere without male backup, in my opinion.
Sometimes a big, buff, and well-trained male motherfucker-of-a-killing-machine is the only thing that will work. Hope some Russians learned a lesson from this… but given that it’s Russia, after all, I wouldn’t bet on it.
The co-pilot of a Heathrow-bound plane was dragged kicking and screaming from the cockpit after suffering a mental breakdown while in control of the flight.
He began yelling and “invoking God” as the Air Canada 767 flew at 37,000 feet over the Atlantic. He was held down by other crew members and a passenger, a member of the Canadian armed forces.
The co-pilot then had restraints fastened to his wrists and ankles and was handcuffed to a seat.
The flight from Toronto made an emergency landing in Shannon and the co-pilot, who had been crying and screaming according to witnesses, was taken off the plane.
He was taken by ambulance to a psychiatric ward where he is being treated for a suspected nervous breakdown.
Gee, to bad sport. Hope you get the proper help and all works out fine for ya’.
OH, this is just one of the reasons I’m not to damn crazy (sorry bloke) about flying. Thankfully, this flight landed safely and the gentleman removed. Seeing a flyer of the plane being carted off strapped down, kinda’ makes my stomach queasy. Anyone see the movie “Airplane”? If not, read the rest…it’s similar to the movie, “Airplane”, only real.
Coming back to what I mentioned about not really being a fan of flying. Had this happened were I aboard this flight, this crazy bastard would have screamed over the plane intercom…”I’m takin” this son-of-a-bitch down, you are all going to hell”.
Specifically related to me, he would have been correct in screaming this shit. I am going straight to hell, I just want it to be on my terms, not some fucking loon’s.
(IsraelNN.com) Encouraged by their success in breaking through the Egyptian border with Gaza last week, a Hamas spokesman has threatened to gather 500,000 Palestinian Authority residents of the region for a similar assault on the perimeter fence dividing southern Israel from PA-controlled Gaza.
Ahmad Yousef, political advisor to the Gaza-based PA leader Ismail Haniyeh, called the fall of the barrier between Egyptian Sinai and Gaza last week a sign of the start of “a third Intifada.” Speaking with the PA’s Bethlehem-based Maan news agency, Yousef said the next stage in such a campaign could involve thousands of Gazan Arabs swarming the IDF-controlled Erez Crossing between Israel and and the PA in an effort to attract international support.
Meanwhile, Hamas militia forces cooperated with Egyptian soldiers on Monday in closing one of three gaps in the security barrier in the city of Rafiah, which straddles the Egyptian-Gaza border. Barbed wire was strung across a section of the separation wall known as the Brazil Gate; however, the main gate in the area remained open, allowing Gaza Arabs to continue to enter Egyptian towns unimpeded. Last week, when Egyptian forces attempted to close the border on their own, a PA bulldozer knocked a new opening in the separation wall.
The partial border control collaboration comes after Egyptian security forces ordered all stores in El-Arish, bordering the Gaza region, to close as of Sunday. Trucks loaded with goods and supplies were prevented from leaving El-Arish towards Rafiah. The move deprived PA Arabs who had charged into the Sinai from Gaza during the past week of a central economic incentive for their having done so.
You know Yousef, if you people spent as much time trying to build a decent and civilized society, as you do trying “to attract international support“, (which you already have, financially. You get millions and millions from damn near everyone, including your Islamic bretheren) some may even grow to like you people.
Yes Yousef, that includes your Islamic bretheren. ‘They’ don’t even like you, it is the reason they try to kick your asses out of every freakin’ Islamic nation, there is. Yousef, get a clue. That is the reason ‘they’ send you millions and millions and millions of dollars. ‘They’ pay you to stay the hell out of where ‘they’ kicked your asses out of.
By the way Yousef, what happens to all that money, beside spending it on weapons from Persia, the new Tsar of Russia, Vladimir, etc, etc? Yousef you don’t spend it on the people you profess to care about, for if your did, why would they be breaking walls down at the border of Egypt trying to buy FOOD?
Something tells me Yousef, you have Swiss banking accounts that you stuff that money in, while those you say you are devoted to, STARVE!
What a friggin genius. Unreal. Wonder how long it will be before GM, Ford and ohhhh, several others, pay to put a hit on this guy?
And for more, review No bears for oil. Oh Puhleeze, huh? and THIS is Why Polar Bears Aren’t Protected, and for fun re-watch the video here.
Via – where else – The Corner, some seriously scary shit!
Here are the top nine predictions:
“1. The Dow will go below 10,500 led by a collapse in consumer discretionary stocks.
2. The 10-year note yields below 3%.
3. The problems in the U.S. banking sector won’t be solved by a government-sponsored program. It will only shine more light on the problems.
4. The Fed’s continued panic-easing will only exacerbate our problems, as Bernanke’s creation of real negative interest rates takes hold, laying the groundwork for more problems.
5. Inflation will rear its ugly head, making the term “stagflation” in vogue again.
6. Most economists will capitulate and admit we are in a recession by March.
7. Obama-Clinton ticket for Dems.
8. McCain-Huckabee for Republicans.
9. The Dems will win a landslide receiving a popular vote not seen since Johnson’s victory against Goldwater.”
Remember, these hedge fund guys have, like three sigma – one-in-a-thousand – IQ’s, and are paid, or not, depending on whether they get stuff like this right. Stock market meltdown, banking crisis, deep recession, stagflation, and an Obama-Clinton administration?!
I can’t take four years of Shrill Hill hectoring me because I’m a white male who happens to enjoy being a white male and doesn’t feel the least bit guilty about it.
Spot, I’m not kidding. Hook me up with a nice girl down there. Preferably before November. Yes, that’s right: I’ll take Kevni over Vice President Hillary Clinton anytime.
It would be four years of this:
Veep Hill on TV: “Screech, screech, screech, screech, screech!”
Beef (Yelling impotently at Boob Tube): “Shut the fuck! I don’t care if you shut the fuck up or shut the fuck down, but it’s exactly the fuck that you need to shut!!!”
Hundreds of thousands have surged into Egypt to buy supplies
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The UN Security Council has abandoned its attempt to agree a statement on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip following a blockade by Israel.
Israel tightened its embargo after a sharp rise in rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory on its southern towns, leading to acute shortages.
The UN statement, which must be agreed by all 15 members of the council, would have called for an end to hostilities.
But Libya wanted language more critical of Israel than the US would accept.
Why, is Israel mentioned at least three times, (see rest of article)…..
when the picture clearly indicates, it is Egyptians pounding on “Gazan’s”?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA’s current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
“The interrogation techniques currently authorized in the CIA program comply with the law,” Mukasey wrote Leahy. “A limited set of methods is currently authorized for use in that program. … Waterboarding is not, and may not be, used in the current program.”
But Mukasey told Leahy in the letter that since waterboarding was not now in use, he did not feel it appropriate to give an opinion.
“As a general matter, I do not believe that it is advisable to address difficult legal questions, about which responsible minds can and do differ, in the absence of concrete facts and circumstances,” he said.
Take that, Bald Boy!
Do we still have Vermont? I thought we gave the damn place to Greenland.
Extremely touching and thought provoking!!
I found this beautiful Aussie Summer poem and thought it might be a comfort to you. It was to me and it’s very well written; I hope you enjoy it because it’s the best piece of English literature I’ve seen in quite a while….
‘An Aussie Summer ‘
a poem by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre
Fuck, It’s HOT !
Many Australians who have never traveled outside their leafy green inner-city suburbs get a kick from taking the mickey out of those of us in the Minerals & Energy game. When they’re not stereotyping us as filthy, semi-literate grunts (a la last year’s ALP advertisements), they’re sniping at us for making too much money and while in the process, raping and pillaging the earth — THEIR earth, as some point out, as though we should feel morally obliged to personally give them each a cut of our paychecks. (Hint: ever heard of taxes? royalties?)
Not only don’t they realise that many folks in the resources sector have tertiary and higher degrees; that Minerals & Energy companies here in Western Australia are very cognisant of taking good care of our environment and have whole departments dedicated to helping do that; that the WA resources sector (mining, oil & gas) is currently subsidising the leafy-green latte-sipping lifestyle they tend to take for granted … but they also they don’t realise that they haven’t even the first clue what really goes on, say, down a coal mine…
Now, here’s what some folks think of, when they think of coal mining… Good ol’ Devo, Workin’ in a Coal Mine:
But that was like, so last Millennium! Modern mining is a whole ‘nother thing altogether:
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Now: a free plug for my State, and for my industry. Western Australia is a beaut state, but we need people!! From anywhere!! Check these out:
Wiki entry on Western Australia, for youse furriners.
Go West Now! Government portal; abject plea for people to come settle here.
mine4jobs.com. What it says.
In yet another feeble plea, former UN Secretary Ineffectual Kofi Annan calls for an end to the escalating violence erupting in Kenya.
I call Africa “the eternal hellhole” because every good intention goes horribly wrong there, and there doesn’t seem to be any hope of anything ever getting other than worse. Africans – like Muslims – can’t seem to evolve past their primitive and mutually destructive tribalism, and those outsiders who seek to help don’t seem to recognize tribalism as being the crux of the problem.
This causes me no end of sadness and frustration, because I have several connections to Africa. One, my uncle was Emperor Haile Selassi’s dentist, and he went on two epic safaris with the Emperor. As a result, I grew up with African lore and was always astonished by the trophies of those classic hunts of the late 1950’s that my uncle has. My uncle and aunt even gave me several items of African art – which I still have – and they always evoke deep wonder and awe in me. The Beef of God would like nothing more than to visit Africa for a plains game safari.
Then, I had several African friends when I was in college, and they were some of the happiest, friendliest, and most well-adjusted people I’ve ever met – never mind the fact that they were transcendentally gifted musicians.
Today, I have a friend who actually runs safaris in Africa – not photo safaris, but the real ones in which you hunt really dangerous animals that hunt you in return. So, I’d like nothing more than to see things get better in Africa – if it weren’t for the despotic strongmen who continually rise to fuck the place up it would be a paradise – but at the end of the day I just throw up my hands and say, “What the fuuuuuuck!”
I have no idea what to do about Africa. Neither does anybody else, evidently.
Via John Derbyshire at NRO’s The Corner I found an amazing article by Anne Applebaum answering the question on all of our minds… OK, on the minds of us bachelors, anyway, Where Did All Those Gorgeous Russians Come From? The answer? Russia has always been filled with gorgeous babes, it’s just that capitalism has finally freed them!
That ought to blow up a few feminist heads (Very small explosions… more like muffled “pops”).
I posted a pic of Maria Sharapova the other day, so I guess we’ll go with the number one Russian Supermodel today: Natalia Vodianova:
It’s not just Russians either. As an artist and aesthetic perfectionist, I love artistic female photography (Yeah, that’s the reason. And I got a bridge…). Babe sites today are positively dominated by eastern European models with last names ending in -cova, and -nov.
The Beef of God is not a Supermodel kind of guy. I like women who aren’t stick-figures, and I love full, rounded faces. Like this:
I think she’s from the Czech Republic. If God had ever made a girl for me, she’d have looked exactly like that, but she’d have her natural dark, dark, dark brown hair. Green eyes and dark brown hair… ~sigh~
Every now and then, a picture of someone will be published which upon viewing, the person looking at it suddenly has a clear view of the subject’s intentions and personality.
This is one such picture.
Just for Chas:
Melbourne today: Sunny and warm, with a late cloud cover, but still warm and a very mild wind.
The Tizona Group 